Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-08
MISTER MCCARTHY
YOUR sELF-AssERrRD SPOU4Is HUNTING
YOU AND THREATENS TO SHOOT.
fhs Prosecution Fails 10 Make Case
for Want Of fsSdnOny-Tbs Hear
ing Continued.

Frank Mccarthy. the young man who
is becoming well known in these parts as
the husband of Mrs. Mccarthy No. 2
in this city and the alleged spouse of Mrs
Mccarthy No. of Pittsburg, was brought
down from st. Clairsyille to Bridgeport
Yesterday morning to have preliminary
hearing on the charge Of bigamy, preferred
against him by the woman who claims TO
have hold upon him, prior to the we'd
ding performed Rev. Farther Martina In
Bridgeport Some weeks ago He was Ia
ken to Justice Robinson's office at pa M,
but the Pittsburg woman failing TO
show M, he was allowed to go upon
his own recognizance, till two p. m, the
time set by the Justice for the hearing. 1t
seemed strange for the justice-Vender TO
turn 4 man loose without 80 much as
string to him, who had been brought
through three States on a requisitiOn, and
whom the detectives had hunted high and
log, and finally captured only by means OF
decoy letters, in the Philadelphia post
Office. but frankie was either innocent,
and did not fear the consequences, or else
he is very soft, and came back like Mary's
little lamb, at the appointed time, after
taking dinner and spending the interval OF
freedom in West Virginia.
The afternoon session of the Court was
a hummer, and no doubt Squire Robinson
has had cases he enjoyed more heartily.
Mrs. Mccarthy number one, as she insists
on proclaiming herself, is not bad look
ing woman, and developed the fact in the
court room that she was nohody's fool and
could not he mixed up by the attorneys.
She testified that she was married to Nc
Carthy in Baltimore by Rev. Father De-
vine, at the Cathedral, and that her mar
riage certificate was in the hands Of either
Prosecuting Attorney kennon, in st.
Clairsville, or Governor Beaver, OF
Pennsylvania, it being upon that eyl-
dence that a requisition was granted.
In some parts of her testimony she
would talk like high pressure engine,
and the words would follow each other so
fast that they seemed mixed, and had to
be run through q separator before they
could be distinguished. She used very
little slang, and conducted herself more
like an injured wife than an impostor, but
she couldn't put up the testimony, and
the Justice adjourned court until 7:3O p.
In. to await the development of more con-
elusive proof OF her marriage. Mccarthy
was again allowed to 90 on his honor, over
to this city.
At $50 O'Clock the court room was filled
10 suffocatiOn by the Bridgeport populace,
all anxious TO hear the result Of the pre-
limina.y hearing, and many no doubt ex-
pecting to hear some choice bits of family
scandal reheagsed by the willy Mccarthy
and his Mamie, or Mrs Nee. No. as she
is better known.
40 o'clock came, but no signs of Nc
Carthy; $50 arrived, and still he came
not, and at 9 o'clock Squire Robinson
shut up shop, and Mrs. Mccarthy left for
Wheeling, much disgruntled about the
Justice having allowed her victim to es-
cape without bail or security, she and all
the spectators agreeing in the opinion that
the defendant bad skipped for parts I'M
known, while the magistrates lenlency
gave him the opportunity.
Mrs. Mccarthy came over to this city
and went direct TO the City Building and
asked Captain Smith tn send some Of has
officers out to look for Mccarthy. Mar
shall Stuff, OF Bridgeport, had been there
ahead OF her, however, and, accompanied
by Lieutenant Junkins, had gone on the
hunt of the lost, and arrived with their
charge at the City Building few minutes
after she had gone. J. w. Shannon, Esq,
one Of McCarthy's attorneys, was at the
City Building when Mccarthy arrived,
aud was Joined few minutes later by
Col Arnett, Mr.. Shannon's assistant. The
trio avOwed that the reason Mccarthy had
not gone to Bridgeport was on account of
a misunderstanding between them and the
Justice The defense understood Mr..
Robinson 10 say that if Mrs. Mccarthy
brought in any further testimony and they
were needed he would send for them,
while the Justice evidently intended to say
that he would send them word if they were
not needed. Marshal Stuff on the recon-
mendatiOn of the Wheeling officers, and
upon his attorneys stalking their profess
sional honor upon McCarthy's appearance
in the morning, allowed him to 90 I'M
guarded till time for Court to meet to-day.
Had Mccarthy appeared before the JUS
tice last night, he would no doubt have
been discharged, as the extended time is
almost up, and Mrs. Mccarthy can not
probably get her marriage certificate, or
the Priest who married them to Bridgeport
in time to hold him. What will be done
with him to-day will depend largely upon
his ability to satisfy the Justice that he was
laboring under mistake in not showing
up last night.
During the hearing, and several times
last night, Mrs Mccarthy threatened to
shoot her alleged husband, and he seems
to fear that she may carry out her threats.